Thursday, October 16, 2008

 

Second case of shark's virgin birth.

In a study released Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists confirmed that a pup found in the belly of a deceased blacktip shark in the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, contained no genetic material from a male shark. This would be the second case of such birth after a first one involving a pup born to a hammerhead shark at an Omaha Nebraska zoo.
With two cases of virgin birth officially recorded, does it make sharks more religious than humans?

Original story in NationalGeographic.com

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